NATO Is Winning in Afghanistan Like the United States Was in Vietnam
The Pentagon released a sobering report on December 10, 2012 on the war in Afghanistan. The report was ready before the United States presidential election in early November but not made available to “respect” the election cycle. The delay from the Pentagon can only be viewed as an attempt by the Obama administration to keep […]
NATO’s Pending Move on Syria: Geopolitics of Chaos
The drums of war are getting louder from the United States and their NATO allies/vassals. Soon missiles will be deployed in Turkey along the border with Syria, and in Washington talk is coming from the Obama administration and mainstream media about a “red line” that is not to be crossed by the Assad regime. The […]
Open Letter to Nobel Laureates: A Plea to Exonerate Wikileaks’ Assange and Manning
By Rafik Saley, Okoth Osewe, John Goss, and Patrick Haseldine The honorable 2012 Nobel Prize Laureates will, on December 10, receive their awards in Oslo and Stockholm from the hands of royalty, under the eyes of a global audience in a ceremony, the focus of which falls particularly on the Kingdom of Sweden. Far away […]
Jewish and Israel’s Psyche: From Abused to Abusers
Groups of people, either nations or cultures, just like individuals have a consciousness. And like individuals, a civilization collective consciousness records and reacts to historical traumas. History leaves scars on people’s collective consciousness. If some individuals tend to bury personal traumatic experiences under the false assumption that ignoring the pain will heal it, some cultures […]
Haiti’s Gold Rush: An Ecological Crime in the Making
Show me a corporate boss who calls Haiti the “poorest country in the western hemisphere,” and I’ll show you a con artist preparing to fleece Haiti. Likewise, show me a western technocrat who bemoans Haiti’s “dramatic deforestation due to charcoal production” and I’ll show a bio-pirate or vandal preparing to wreck the country’s remaining cloud-forest […]
